Stefan

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt Dr. Phil is my idol!

Got my teeth cleaned.

Marylou, Marylou, Marylou...what am I going to do with you! You can't get that information! Didn't you read the article at the beginning of the post! They won't share that kind of information with the owners!

I know! I know! I know becuase you sent that picture to me Mr. Klenke!

I accept apologies. Hell, I fuck up too. I fucked up big time with the wife one time. I am still paying for it. But come on. Helping someone move was an emergency? I understand death, sickness....but moving?

Hey, you're the guy who never showed up for the climb after I had to organize everything with my family to make sure it was allright I get out. It took a lot of work for me to get that weekend. You fucked up.

I would ban you anytime and everytime and as fast as I could. that's cause you have a number 4 'lot tipped out in your anus Hugh? Educate me.

I would ban you anytime and everytime and as fast as I could.

Damn you Klenke. I almost had it!

I'm sure the "well-paid" REI retail employees who frequent this site would have something to say about this! I kind of laugh at it too. But when you see the data, the retail employees at REI are getting slighter higher bump in pay than your average joe on the retail floor at Walmart!

Ignorant. Ignorant. Ignorant people. Every store position and every position at HQ has a wage or salary range. The HR department does an analysis every year to make sure the wage or salary range is comparable to THE MARKET for the position and the location where the position is in. They bump up the wage range for store retail employees becuase they believe they need to attract the knowledge becuase they are in a specialty retail environment. Your pay within that wage/salary range is determined by your prior year performance. You can only make the maximum in that range or you will not be paid less than the minimum in that range. If you suck, your pay does not increase. If you do well, then you get a raise. Bottom line: Pay for people is determined by the market for the position.

Why don't I hear about more sweatshops in Mexico than in Asia? Is labor more pricey in Mexico? Is it because the humidity is less and people sweat less?

Methinks spraying is stupid. Oh crap! I just sprayed.

. Cultures will change.....give it time.......you can't have "everything" now in the "information" revolution that is just getting started. You couldn't do many things in the former USSR. Things changed.......

I think the vast majority of people are smart enough to decide if wage and benefits are good enough for them. by this reasoning, sweatshops are a practical example of capitolism... is that the euphamistic spin you would use for that? Good point Fence. I have thought about this. My conclusion. I would support sweat shops. Why? Their lives are better than they were before. Seriously. People really had no money in SE Asia until the sweatshops started. More people died of starvation and of course, all the fighting..... Sweatshops are bad, but they are good in the long run. Hell, the US had sweatshops in the 1800's during the beginning of the industrial revolution. Then the people became organized and unions started demanding better working conditions. I expect the same thing will happen to sweatshops in the far east. It just takes time. Sweatshops bad in the short term.....but good in the long term.

That's what you get for being an insurance broker.

Yo. I devote my life to that site. The people on that site have been conversing longer than the existence of cc.com. Respect your elders! I will have to say SPRAY is entertaining on this site but at least there is more information about the backcountry on that site than there is here.......

Make no mistake about it: When chores, routine existence, and just playing it safe become the only purpose in life, there is no purpose, and one must be found. Thank God for Dr. Phil.

Hey PLC, gotta question. I remember in my economics class that tarriffs inevitably hurts the country that puts the tarriffs on. Is this generally correct? What about subsidies? Just interested becuase of the recent tariff war on lumber with Canada.

Its not a cop out. It's the truth. It's not tough luck either. It's called the market. The market reflects the most information to the consumer. If wages are high and the skill level to enter a job is low, then people will go to that job. A general merchandise retail employee does not need a lot of skills.

I think the vast majority of people are smart enough to decide if wage and benefits are good enough for them.

Mrs RW, I never bought that bologna from Walmart about USA products. If you believed that, then you believed the Ford truck was made in the USA--but a lot of parts came from Canada/Europe. I think the rule was that 80% of the product had to be from the US--but I am not sure. The problem with the "made in the USA" label is this: WalMart is a retailer. Not a manufacturer. They bought stuff from the manufacturer assuming the manufacturer was legitimate in their claims. Walmart has probably 150,000 SKUs for every store and probably over 2MM SKUs for all its stores--and in no way can they check out the claims of every manufacturer if what they say is true. Hell, look at what big R has to do with just a certain brand.

Hmmm......I don't know those exact situations. Is it in the book? Each state has slightly different laws, but mostly they are the same. If a company does something illegal, then they must pay up, and change the practice. As for being self insured. No laws against that. I worked for a company that was self insured. The company was self insured becuase it was cheaper. Walmart likes to do things cheaper and have lower overhead--that's why they can bring lower prices. Walmart doesn't have to pay up for suspicious claims--just like those people you see on TV that have a bad back and our out at their home lifting stuff. I never got into knowing about injuries and such at my work, because I wasn't in the loop. Do you have examples of employees being paid legitimate claims? I am sure you don't. And I am willing to bet that the legitimate ones far outweigh the ones that go to court. Changing working time cards is bad. As with any business and any community you will have a few bad apples--even managers. Many companies have done it--not every person is good. Just becuase a few people out of thousands do it, doesn't mean the whole company does the practice. Get real. And I am sure to believe that many small business in small towns have changed the time cards on their employees--and continue to do it. You just never hear about it.

I'll bite. Here I am. I am so damned cute! Stefan and his kids......

She didn't turn me down becuase she knows I am no threat. She knows I be married to my beyotch for 11 years now with two rugrats.